For using Azure API Center as an MCP Registry, what is the proper url format?

[efedeli]

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api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms/workspaces/default ?

api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms ?

The documentation here is unclear: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/administer-copilot/manage-mcp-usage/configure-mcp-server-access

If you set up your MCP registry using Azure API Center, enter the base URL for your API Center. Including route suffixes like /v0.1/servers will cause the registry to error out.

[parniayzdin]

Hi there. From what I know
The base URL you should enter is the Azure API Center endpoint without any extra route suffixes like: /workspaces/default or /v0.1/servers.

That means you should use: https://api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms
and not:

• https://api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms/workspaces/default
• https://api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms/v0.1/servers
  GitHub expects the MCP registry URL to be the root API Center URL. If you include additional path segments, the registry will fail to connect, and you’ll see errors like the ones mentioned in the docs.

Hope this helps.

[suhas-arcadis]

Hi @parniayzdin, @yassine-krichen @efedeli - I am able to get response on https://api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms/workspaces/default suffix but not on https://api-center-name.data.region.azure-apicenter.ms/v0.1/servers suffix in my set-up. What could be wrong here?
Also, once the API center is set-up, which url should be used to install an mcp in vs code? What would be url format. Any example pointers or document that you referred would be helpful..

[yassine-krichen]

The correct format is just the base URL of your Azure API Center instance, nothing more. No workspace paths, no routes, no /v0.1/servers, no /workspaces/default.

It should look like:

https://<api-center-name>.data.<region>.azure-apicenter.ms

Examples:

https://myapicenter.data.westeurope.azure-apicenter.ms
https://teamregistry.data.eastus.azure-apicenter.ms

Copilot expects to handle the MCP discovery flow itself, so adding anything after the base domain will make the registry fail. Just give it the root URL and it works.